Vilko Begic

Vilko Begic (20 January 1874-1946) was a Colonel-General of the Independent State of Croatia during World War II.

Biography
Vilko Begic was born on 20 January 1874 in Cazma, Croatia and Slavonia, Austria-Hungary. He became a journalist after World War I and was often attacked by the gendarmerie of Yugoslavia for his Croatian nationalist views, and he helped in the formation of the Independent State of Croatia's military during World War II. Begic was Chief of the Army and Armament Minister under Ante Pavelic's Ustase government, and at the end of the war he surrendered to the United States in Austria. He was interned at a US Army prisoner-of-war camp in Salzburg before being handed over to Josip Broz Tito's communist government of Yugoslavia, which executed him in 1946.